(Request for Information) Evaluation of Germicidal Far-UVC: Safety, Efficacy, Technology, and Adoption
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by Josh You
10M ago
Open Philanthropy is interested in exploring and potentially supporting novel opportunities to reduce pathogen transmission in the built environment, as part of our work on biosecurity and pandemic preparedness. Recently highlighted by the COVID-‍19 pandemic, the need for safe and effective disinfection solutions is vital to prevent pandemics and improve global health. Far-Ultraviolet-C light (Far-UVC), emitted between 200–240 nm, is a promising disinfection technology with minimal currently-identified adverse health outcomes. Open Philanthropy seeks to understand recent insights and advances ..read more
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Incoming Program Officer for Effective Altruism Community Growth (Global Health and Wellbeing): James Snowden
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by Aaron Gertler
11M ago
Earlier this year, I wrote that Open Philanthropy was looking for someone to help us direct funding for our newest cause area: We are searching for a program officer to help us launch a new grantmaking program. The program would support projects and organizations in the effective altruism community (EA) with a focus on improving global health and wellbeing (GHW) […] We’re looking to hire someone who is very familiar with the EA community, has ideas about how to grow and develop it, and is passionate about supporting projects in global health and wellbeing. Today, I’m excited to announce that ..read more
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12 tentative ideas for US AI policy
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by Josh You
1y ago
About two years ago, I wrote that “it’s difficult to know which ‘intermediate goals’ [e.g. policy goals] we could pursue that, if achieved, would clearly increase the odds of eventual good outcomes from transformative AI.” Much has changed since then, and in this post I give an update on 12 ideas for US policy goals[1]Many of these policy options would plausibly also be good to implement in other jurisdictions, but for most of them the US is a good place to start (the US is plausibly the most important jurisdiction anyway, given the location of leading companies, and many other countries somet ..read more
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Announcing the Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest
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by Aaron Gertler
1y ago
We just launched the 2023 Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest. We’re looking for essays that influence our views on one of two questions: What is the probability that AGI[1]By “AGI” we mean something like “AI that can quickly and affordably be trained to perform nearly all economically and strategically valuable tasks at roughly human cost or less.” AGI is a notoriously thorny concept to define precisely. What we’re actually interested in is the potential … Continue reading is developed by January 1, 2043? Conditional on AGI being developed by 2070, what is the probability that human ..read more
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Does putting kids in school now put money in their pockets later? Revisiting a natural experiment in Indonesia
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by David Roodman
1y ago
Open Philanthropy’s Global Health and Wellbeing team continues to investigate potential areas for grantmaking. One of those is education in poorer countries. These countries have massively expanded schooling in the last half century. but many of their students lack minimal numeracy and literacy.  To support the team’s assessment of the scope for doing good through education, I reviewed prominent research on the effect of schooling on how much children earn after they grow up. Here, I will describe my reanalysis of a study published by Esther Duflo in 2001. It finds tha ..read more
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Cause Exploration Prizes: Announcing our prizes
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by Aaron Gertler
1y ago
We were gratified to receive over 150 good-faith submissions to Open Philanthropy’s Cause Exploration Prizes, where we invited people to suggest a new area for us to support or respond to our suggested questions. We hoped that these submissions would help us find new ways to carry out our mission — helping others as much as possible with the resources available to us. You can read them on the EA Forum. Below, we highlight the submissions to which we are awarding major prizes and honorable mentions. We’re awarding these prizes to entries that we thought engaged well with our ..read more
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New Shallow Investigations: Telecommunications and Civil Conflict Reduction
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by Josh You
1y ago
We recently published two shallow investigations on potential focus areas to the Effective Altruism Forum. Shallow investigations, which are part of our cause selection process, are mainly intended as quick writeups for internal audiences and aren’t optimized for public consumption. However, we’re sharing these two publicly in case others find them useful. The default outcome for shallow investigations is that we do not move forward to a deeper investigation or grantmaking, though we investigate further when results are particularly promising. If you have thoughts or questions on either of the ..read more
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Incoming Program Officer for Effective Altruism Community Building (Global Health and Wellbeing): James Snowden
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by Aaron Gertler
1y ago
Earlier this year, I wrote that Open Philanthropy was looking for someone to help us direct funding for our newest cause area: We are searching for a program officer to help us launch a new grantmaking program. The program would support projects and organizations in the effective altruism community (EA) with a focus on improving global health and wellbeing (GHW) […] We’re looking to hire someone who is very familiar with the EA community, has ideas about how to grow and develop it, and is passionate about supporting projects in global health and wellbeing. Today, I’m excited to announce that ..read more
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Report on Social Returns to Productivity Growth
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by Josh You
1y ago
Historically, economic growth has had huge social benefits, lifting billions out of poverty and improving health outcomes around the world. This leads some to argue that accelerating economic growth, or at least productivity growth[1]If environmental constraints require that we reduce our use of various natural resources, productivity growth can allow us to maintain our standards of living while using fewer of these scarce inputs., should be a major philanthropic and social priority going forward.[2]For example: in Stubborn Attachments, Tyler Cowen argues that the best way to improve the long ..read more
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Update on Our Planned Allocation to GiveWell’s Recommended Charities in 2022
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by Aaron Gertler
1y ago
Last year, we recommended $300 million of grants to GiveWell’s evidence-backed, cost-effective recommendations in global health and development, up from $100 million the year before. We recently decided that our total allocation for this year will be $350 million.  That’s a $50 million increase over last year, significantly driven by GiveWell’s impressive progress on finding more cost-effective opportunities. We expected GiveWell to identify roughly $430 million of 2022 “room for more funding” in opportunities at least 8 times more cost effective than cash transfers to the global poor. In ..read more
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